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It's really nice to see another Meta investment fail

The news from Brazil and Serbia today's a bit of a balm after the fiasco in British Columbia last night; will definitely take what I can get.

EA delenda est, already. Really, any of the big consolidate-and-burn game industry omnicorporations delenda est. Looty private equity delenda est, too, while we're at it. Lotta stuff delenda est, really. It feels like that kind of a day. Where's my salt...?

continues to be one of the most validated and prescient pieces of our time

Man, Senator @schiff.senate.gov sure seems to have found a book called "The Exact Opposite Of How To Win Friends And Influence People: Canadian Edition," hasn't he?

Yeah, no pressure, influence or threats involved there, I'm sure.

I know "make UIs worse at random intervals for no reason so managers and shareholders think we're Innovating(tm)" is one of the tech industry's whole Things, but even by those standards, come on Youtube, what the hell is that.

I'd say "there ought to be a law," but I'm pretty sure there is, in fact, a law or two for this sort of thing. Be nice if they were applied.

Gah, I'd love to know what got all the idiot street-racers out in this part of town today. Even by the usual standards it's extra aggravating.

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day. Today we celebrate the life of a man who saved billions by not believing a computer. May we all learn this valuable lesson.

I knew Sobeys was incredibly abusive about these things, but not that they were somehow claiming the right to ban competition within *five kilometers* of some of their stores. And people wonder how food deserts become a thing.

Dear All Journalists Everwhere: I know the guy's incoherent rants are technically called "truths," but maybe for just five minutes consider not reporting on them as settled facts without at least pretending to do a little legwork first.

Gasp! How dare we engage in international trade and diplomacy without the United States' permission?

Once in awhile, the news fails to suck.

Behold, freedom and small government!

[insert West Wing reference here] About time. Glad to see it was (almost) unanimous, with the one single vote against being exactly who we'd expect these days in the form of an amazingly hinge-free rant about woke conspiracies.

Well that doesn't suck, especially if they can stretch it out long enough to cover the wait-list time for a human donor and help people reduce or avoid dialysis in the process.

Finally reading this exposé about how the AHA has been using funds to hire a corporate lobbyist to quash its own members’ views. It’s entirely dystopian and I hope for the day when we have leadership that is actually responsive to the views of its membership. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...

Looking forward to another month or three of getting frustrated every time I see the phrase "become the 51st state" in the news. Gotta love journalists' - even most Canadian journalists'! -crippling fear of actually using the word "annexation."

[Ep3-Vader-esque wail of annoyed anguish at reddit sticking a hard login wall on the old actually-navigable-and-readable version of the site for some inane reason] Readily accessible information sources are for suckers, amirite? Sigh.

Sounds like we are in fact trying out "yield unconditionally and hope it works this time" once more on the trade talks. Guess now we'll see how the PM attempts to make people stop a widely popular boycott. Wonder if we're losing our own mineral rights too at this rate. We'll find out Friday!

Kind of enjoying how my latest glance at the Blender feed is a roughly even mix of people rhapsodizing about how much they love using it on the one hand, and pained howls of martyred despair at the suffering that is using it on the other. (Which to be fair is a big improvement over v2.x or v3.x..)

I wonder exactly how many people put their hands on this between the initial prompt and the handing out of the materials, because it's obvious that not a single one of them put their *eyes* on it at any point in the process. Only the greatest lessons for Kentucky's students!

Kinda bracing for this to be the result of the current round of "negotiations."

Totally sure a private equity firm under the Trump administration will keep Canadians' best interests in mind after buying control of one third of our commerce, right? It would be nice if we could go, like, one single solitary week without someone ceding more sovereignty to the United States.

Some jerk appears to have taken a bite out of the sun. Some of us are *using* that!

I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

Little green men, redcap edition.

Just a thought, but what if we *didn't* simply capitulate unconditionally to every American demand on the assumption that this time - *this* time - the random tariff episodes will stop? Just wait it out until the wannabe mad king dies, it's not like *anything* we do will moderate his behaviour.

Oh, it's the flight attendant's fault is it? The executives demanding unpaid labour are blameless here? Good to know.

All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...

Canada *really* needs to tear up the Safe Third Country Agreement already. Applying the term "safe" to a country as fixated on persecution and refoulement as the United States is right now is an obscenity.

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

It's a good start, though I hope the Competition Bureau keeps after them. The big grocers have long proven that they can't be trusted to self-regulate.

Increasingly convinced one of my default delivery options has a teleporter directly connecting their kitchen to my front step. Not gonna argue!